Introduction

LSE Ventures Limited (LSEVL) is engaged in the business of investment management in portfolio companies, pre-IPO stage equity investments and treasury management. LSEVL also holds strategic investments in several companies, representing diversified sectors, such as capital market infrastructure companies, financial services, commodity exchange, credit rating agency, digital technology and growth enterprises, technology and hard-core infrastructure companies.

Investment in the shares of LSEVL offers a unique opportunity to the shareholders to proportionately share the Company’s investments in key capital market infrastructure companies, such as CDC, NCCPL, PMEX and PACRA, which are unlisted at the moment. LSEVL is the only shareholder of LSE Financial Services Limited, which is a NBFC and is the residual entity of erstwhile Lahore Stock Exchange.

The foundation of this Company was laid down by a group, comprising some high-net-worth investors and highly professional capital market experts, who acquired major shareholding and the management control of LSE Financial Services Limited (Formerly: Lahore Stock Exchange Limited) in 2022 and afterwards demerged it into three separate companies. Resultantly, LSEVL emerged as the holding/parent company of the group companies created out of the assets/investments of the former stock exchange company.

LSEVL was listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited (PSX) on June 27, 2023, where its Company Code/Security Symbol is “LSEVL”. It is quoted in the “Investment Banks/Investment Companies/Securities Companies” Sector in the Daily Quotation of PSX. The Company has a rich capital base with a paid-up capital of Rs. 1.795 billion and with a free float of 65%. The Registered Office of the Company is situated at LSE Plaza, 19-Khayaban-e-Aiwan-e-Iqbal, Lahore.